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Instagram CEO denies company hid low use of teen safety feature in Meta trial

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Adam Mosseri is first top executive from Meta to testify in blockbuster lawsuit brought by 29 US statesInstagram’s CEO disputed allegations by US prosecutors that his company hid negative information from the public while testifying during a blockbuster social media trial.“I am not trying to encourage my team to hide anything,” the CEO, Adam Mosseri, […]

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Trump-backed Ken Paxton unveils ‘Texas first’ datacenter plan aimed at ‘negative impact’

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The Republican Senate candidate announced the plan with a graphic X flagged as ‘Made with AI’US politics live – latest updatesKen Paxton, a Republican candidate for the US Senate in Texas, has unveiled plans to tackle the “negative impact” of datacenters amid a growing backlash across the political spectrum.Paxton, endorsed by Donald Trump but facing

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An AI ‘debt bomb’ crisis? No. This isn’t Enron 2.0 | Gene Marks

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Fears of a datacenter buildout debt crisis are exaggerated. The risks are different than in the past and they are recoverableSome experts are warning of a looming “debt bomb” crisis because big datacenter builders such as Meta, Oracle, xAI and CoreWeave are not only raising billions to construct these facilities but are also not recognizing

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Diamonds for sale: lab-grown gem auctions are all over TikTok right now, but some aren’t happy about it

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Streamed auctions offer a cheap way to buy the precious gems, but experts warn that quality is not guaranteedThe first time Andrea Greenhill came across a livestream auction for lab-grown diamonds while scrolling on TikTok, she was stunned. While the diamond engagement ring her husband proposed with years ago had cost thousands of dollars, these

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Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial

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In trial that opened on Tuesday, California and 28 other states accused the company of designing addictive sites and violating laws protecting children’s privacyMeta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company.The

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Is this the end of Harry and Meghan’s American dream?

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The Sussexes are returning to the UK with significantly reduced media deals in an industry where fame alone can no longer guarantee successHaving settled in California in the aftermath of their dramatic decoupling from the royal family in 2020, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced a partnership that appeared to set a clear destination

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Would even an AI disaster on the scale of Hiroshima be enough to make humankind protect itself? I fear not | Timothy Garton Ash

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It’s clear here in Silicon Valley that AI is advancing faster than humans’ ability to control it. That means even sober prophecies seem optimisticHere in Silicon Valley, the experts think that within the next couple of years we’ll see an extraordinary takeoff for artificial intelligence. “Welcome to the foothills of the singularity,” as a Stanford

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Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ – podcast

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With less than three months to go until the midterms, voters are thinking about grocery prices, the Iran war – and datacentres.This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the historian Jill Lepore about how this latest AI backlash could influence those all-important elections in November. Are we seeing the beginning of the end of the ‘artificial

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Lobsters and acidic seas: can shellfish help neutralise one of the greatest threats to the ocean?

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Crustaceans are the subject of tests to see if alkalis added to seawater, so it absorbs more CO2, harm marine life. But Trump’s halt to funding threatens to scupper the researchFor many in the US region of New England, the lobster roll is synonymous with summertime. Loaded into a toasted bun, chunks of the sweet

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Their cities dropped Flock surveillance cameras. They’re still being watched

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Despite policy victories over Flock, Americans are finding themselves under similar monitoring by a new company – or unable to remove the original camerasActivists in Colorado thought they would be celebrating a victory against mass surveillance in December when the Longmont city council decided to let a contract with Flock Safety lapse.But that excitement was

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